Swivel-hook for coat-hangers.



G. WOBDINGHAIVI.

SWIVEL H 00K FOR COAT HANGERS, APPLICATION FILED AUG; 14. l9l4- 1,213 7Emma Jan. 23,1917.

GEORGE WORDIRTGHAM, F MELWAE, WISCONSIN.

SWIVEL-HOOK FUR (MEAT-G misses.

I To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WORDING, citizen of the United States,residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swivel-Hooks for Coat-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to suspension means for coat hangers, andmoreparticularly to a swivel hook device for supporting such hangers.

A number of types of coat hangers are made from heavy press-board orthin wood and similar material, which renders them light in weight,capable of being packed in a small space, and cheap to manufacture, butthey practically all possess a certain disadvantage, namely, that theirsuspenslon hooks are secured in such a manner that they are liable topull loose from the board or body portion of the hanger and therebydestroy the usefulness of the hanger. Ordinarily, there is but one pointof attachment, and that is in the nature of a rivet fastened through theconnecting member of the hook and through the body portion of thehanger. It is obvious that in such a construction, any considerableweight imposed upon the body or bar of the hanger will cause the rivetto pull through the said body, if of pressboard, or cause it to splitthe body if of wood or similar material. It is, therefore, an aim of thepresent invention to provide a swivel suspension hook for a garmenthanger of this particular type, so constructed that it may be readilyapplied without the use of separate fastening devices and, if desired,by hand, and in any event, without the necessity of employingcomplicated machinery, and which, when applied, will be firmly securedto the body or bar of the hanger and not liable to become loosened.

Another aim of the invention is to pro vide a connection for thesuspension hook, of such character that it will adapt -the hanger tosupport a considerable weight and which, at the same time, will permitof the hanger having swivel movement with relation to the suspensionmeans.

Another aim of the invention is to provide in a device of this class asuspension hook and an attaching member therefor, so constructed thatthe two may be readily and quickly assembled by hand and will notrequire the use of machinery to either as- Speciflcation of Eetterskatent.

Application filed August it, me.

Patented Jan. 23, 19th.

fierial Ho. $56,838.

points and in such a manner as to not completely penetrate or pierce thesame, so that the said body or bar will not be weakened to anyappreciable extent.

the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 p is a perspective view of thedevice embodying the present invention applied to the body or bar of acoat hanger. Fig. 2 is a group perspective view illustrating the partsof the device disassembled. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectionalView through the device. Fig. 4c is a vertical transverse sectionalview.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

In the drawings, the body or bar of the coat hanger is indicated by thenumeral 1, and is, as stated above, of press-board, thin wood, or othersimilar and suitable material, and this bar, inasmuch as it constitutesno part of the present invention, may be of any desired form andconstruction.

The present invention comprises a suspension device includin a hook orsuspension element 2 prefera 1y formed from a suitable length of Wirebent to form the bill.

of the hook and a shank 3. The end of the shank 3 is headed, asindicated at at, as for example, by a riveting process. The connectingor attaching member for the hook is preferably formed from sheet metaland the blank from which this member is formed is folded to producespaced sides 5 and 6 and a connecting portion 7, the sides 5 and 6projecting downwardly from the longitudinal edges of the connectingportion and initially occupying downwardly diverging planes. Theconnecting portion and also the sides of the member may be of anydesired length and the connecting portion is preferably of a widthsubstantially equal to the thickness of the body of the bar 1. For apurpose to be presently pointed out, one of the sides, for example, theside 5, is of greater depth than the side 6, and each of the said sidesis provided at its lower edge with a longitudinally extending inwardlyprojecting toothed flange or piercing memher 8 which is relativelynarrow and which, in fact, is of a width less than the thickness'of thebar 1. The flanges 8 lie in planes at right angles to the planesoccupied by their respective sides 5 and 6 and due to the difference indepth in the two sides, the flange upon the side 6 will occupy a planeabove that occupied by the flange upon the side 5. At a point midwaybetween its ends, the connecting portion or back 7 of the attachingportion is formed with an opening 9 and surrounding this opening is asocket struck up slightly, as indicat"d at 10. The opening 9 is of adiameter to ermit of the free passage therethrough of t e wire fromwhich the hook is formed but too small to permit of the passage of thehead 4:, and in assembling the hook with the connecting or attachingmember, the bill of the hook is fitted through the opening 9 and thehook 1s threaded through the opening until the head 4 seats in theconcavity'or socket of the struck up portion 10. It will be apparentthat when thus assembled, the attaching member may have swivel movementupon the shank 3. In applying the attaching member to the bar 1, thesides 5 and 6 are fitted over the upper edge of the bar so that theunder side of the connecting portion rests snugly against the upper edgeof the said bar 1 at a point midway between the ends of the bar. Thesides 5 and 6 are then pressed together so as to cause the toothedflanges 8 to bite into the opposite sides of the bar 1, in the mannerclearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, and from an inspection of thisfigure, it will be apparent that the teeth of the flanges enter the barabout one-half its thickness, and that the teeth upon the side 5 arelocated below the teeth u on the side 6, or, in other words, that theteeth of the two flanges do not penetrate the opposite sides of the barat corresponding or opposite points or along corresponding or o positelines.

It will be apparent that by the provision of an attaching member of theconstruction described, the same is adapted to be firmly secured to thebar 1 and that its securing elements engage the bar at more than asingle pomt.

It will also be apparent by reference to Fig. 3 that the concave side ofthe struck up portion 10 is of such depth as to completely receive thehead 4 of the shank of the suspension book so that the head is confinedwithin this concavity by'the upper edge of the bar 1.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as newiis:

Ina garment hanger, a flat sided relatively thin hanger body, and asuspension device therefor including a suspension hook, and a clipcarried by the said hook, said clip having spaced depending sidesarranged to confront each other and 'oined by a connecting portionoverlying t e upper edge of the hanger body with the sides of the clipconfronting the sides of said body, the clip sides being relatively wideand having the free margins thereof bent to provide inwardly directedflanges extending longitudinally of the clip sides from end to end ofthe clip with the said flanges disposed at substantially right angles tothe clip sides and formed at their inner edges with a plurality ofteeth, the sides of the clip providing jaws movable toward each other toclamp the hanger body therebetween and shift the said flanges to piercethe said body by the teeth thereof with the sides of the clip seatingflat against the sides of the hanger body and with the said flangesextending into the said body at substantially right angles to the sidefaces thereof and providing elongated supporting shoulders within thehanger body adapted to receive the weight of a load upon the clipexerted through said suspension hook with the hook alttached to theconnecting portion of the c 1p.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE WORDINGHAM. [L- 8-] Witnesses:

S. ARNoLDs, FRED. J. RAY.

